It doesn’t go any further. The prime minister Ernesto Alvarez announced that the call to reopen The Fronton It will not be a political action promoted by the transitional government headed by José Jerí. The premier criticized the measure and pointed out that the Executive has other projects in criminal and prison matters. In this way, the proposal that was promoted at the time by Dina Boluarte and Juan José Santiváñez.
“It is too expensive to rebuild the prison The Fronton. With that money you can build two prisons. We already have the land for Ica; We just have to unblock the project and continue it,” said Ernesto Álvarez in an interview with Canal N. The prime minister’s argument was previously supported by Javier Llaqueformer head of INPE, who estimated that the total implementation of the project would be around 5,000 million soles.
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The proposal to reopen the prison The Fronton was part of the populist measures promoted during the government of Dina Boluarte. Under the management of Juan José Santiváñez in it Ministry of Justicethe now Senate candidate promoted the reconstruction of the prison located on the island of the same name as his main proposal. The project sought to alleviate extreme overcrowding in prisons; However, it was questioned for its technical shortcomings.
not only Santiváñez proposed reopening El Frontón. The congressman Wilson Soto (Popular Action) also previously presented a bill with the same purpose. Soto argued, as did Santiváñezthat prison overcrowding would be reduced with this measure, although without considering the high budget that its execution would imply.
Ernesto Álvarez also distanced himself from the death penalty
He prime minister I also distance myself from another of the proposals defended by Boluarte and Santiváñez: the death penalty. As indicated in the interview, this measure does not effectively address the exponential growth of crime. The premier’s speech seemed to lean more towards a reform of the judicial system that does not contemplate capital punishment.
“It is evident that, even though there are people who demand a drastic sanction, the problem is that it does not deter those who have already been mentally captured by crime. The ideal is effective sentences and short criminal processes, and that prosecutors are promoted by the number of sentences obtained, not by the investigations they prolong. Likewise, that judges progress based on their criminal processes and not by their proximity to the media or the political world,” he noted.
In addition, the prime minister specified that the initiation of the corresponding procedures for Peru’s eventual exit from the Union has not yet been discussed among the members of the Executive Branch. American Convention on Human Rights (IACHR).
